La utopía banal: La urbanización, la globalización y lo antibucólico en Últimas noticias del paraíso
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2012.3.1.454Keywords:
anti-bucólico, bildungsroman, globalization, suburbs (urbanizaciones), post-transition Spain (postransición española)Abstract
One of the consequences of globalization in Spain has been the import of the so-called Anglo suburban culture coming from the western world. The development of this culture comes from pastoral roots, in that humans seek to live peacefully with each other as well as with non-humans. Nevertheless, as it has come into contact with capitalism, this pastoral culture has failed because it is commodified like any other consumer product. The Spanish residential communities that have inherited this cultural history in part are known as urbanizaciones. In Clara Sanchez's novel, Últimas noticias del paraíso, these communities reveal themselves as places built to bring together humanity and nature but that, from the perspective of a coming-of-age adolescent, in actuality are centers of artificiality condemned to banality. What this current work proposes is that Últimas noticias del paraíso presents itself as an anti-pastoral and in this way underlines the problems that the globalization of capitalistic culture brings with it by spreading alienation and ambivalence on the part of humanity when confronted with the natural world, even while maintaining a pastoral mask.
Resumen
Una de las consecuencias de la globalización en España ha sido la importación de la cultura particularmente angla de los suburbs, procedente del mundo occidental. El desarrollo de esta cultura tiene sus raíces en un deseo por lo bucólico, en el que los humanos buscan vivir en paz entre sí y con lo no humano. Sin embargo, al mezclarse con el capitalismo, esta cultura se ha mercantilizado como cualquier otro producto para el consumo. Las comunidades residenciales en España que en parte reflejan la herencia de esta historia cultural se conocen como urbanizaciones. En la novela de Clara Sánchez, Últimas noticias del paraíso, las urbanizaciones se revelan como lugares hechos para unir lo humano a la naturaleza, pero que, desde la perspectiva de un adolescente en aprendizaje vital, en realidad son centros de artificialidad condenados a lo banal. Lo que este trabajo propone es que Últimas noticias del paraíso se presenta como anti-bucólica y así subraya los problemas que trae la globalización de la cultura consumista al propagar alienación y ambivalencia a la humanidad frente el mundo natural, a pesar de que lleva el antifaz de lo bucólico.
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